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as is made up of a reddifli kind of gravel : the bed fign of it 

 here, as well as in Ireland, has been fufficiently hinted in the 

 former Chapter, to be that white and frungy kind of matter, that 

 fticks to thtftones in the caverns of the Rocks, and fo plentifully 

 found at Cornwell and Whately 5 at Hanborough, Farrier, and in 

 Ccrnbury Park. Not but that very good Lime may be had from 

 ftone that ftiews not the leaft of this fign, as at Bladen Quarry, 

 and many other places, but that none makes better then the ftone 

 that has it ; except hereafter it may be found true here, what 

 Lachmund e aflerts of the Bifioprick. of Hildejheim, where the belt 

 (he fays) is made of the hardeft ftone, quodvaria infe Conchylia 

 continet, fet full of petrified tt\c\\-t\Qi : for if fo, our beft Lime- 

 flone muft be at Charleton and Langley at Little Milton, and Shot- 

 over Forresl, in the Quarry there on the north fide of the Hill, 

 not far from the way to Sir Timothy Tyrrills ; at all which places, 

 the ftone is ftuckfull of Cockles, Efcallops, and Oyslers, of which 

 more anon in the following Chapter. 



33. Befide the ftone that is ufed for the fubftafice, there is o- 

 ther that ferves for the ornament of Building, a fort of gray 

 Marble dug in the Parifh of Blechington, in the Lordftiip of the 

 Right Honorable Arthur Earl of Anglefey, Lord Fr ivy Seal : Of 

 this there are feveral Chimny-pieces and Pavements, in his Lord- 

 fiips Houfe there, well worth the notice ; as alfo at the Right 

 Honorable the Earl of Clarendon's at Cornbury. And of this 

 are the Pillars of the Portico's at St. Johns College in Oxford. They 

 make befide of it Tomb-slones and Tables, and of late alfo Mill- 

 fiones^ good enough for the Oyl-mills ; but not for the Corn-mills y 

 becaufeof its fuppofed fweating, to which this is fubjedt in rainy 

 weather, like all other Marbles. 



34. Some other ftones there are of inferior ufe, which yet muft 

 by no means be paft by in filence ; whereof I know one fo like the 

 Tripoli-Jlone, in colour, confidence, and for all its ufes, that I 

 cannot but think it of the very fame kind : to fdver it gave that 

 very lafting brightnefs, that another piece of Plate that was try- 

 edagainft it, receiv'd from the Gold-fmiths Tripoli-Jicne, and 

 proved it felf in all refpe&s fo much the very fame ; that would 

 any thing pleafe us not far fetchM, perhaps there might be no fur- 

 ther need of fending any more to Africa for it. 



Lach-'Opvx.-nyyi<pi*,Seff. 3. caf. t. 



35. Nor 



